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them finely outlined with white ; the anterior legs 

 black and shining. 



The full-fed larva was about one inch long ; the grey 

 of the segmental divisions spreading a little very faintly 

 over the other parts, which then showed large velvety 

 black blotchy spots on the middle of the back of each 

 segment and at the sides, and black warts rather 

 shining at the base of the hairs, and each pair of 

 hinder dorsal of these bordered in front by a thin 

 margin of dark, rather rusty, or brick-red, thicker 

 behind each of the side tubercles (these were the re- 

 mains of the previous red band across each segment, 

 showing narrow between the trapezoidals, and wider 

 behind the side wart) ; along the belly was a broad 

 central stripe of dirty pinkish, having a few black dots 

 on those segments which bear no legs ; on each seg- 

 ment near the beginning of the white dorsal marking 

 were two isolated white specks, one on either side, 

 sometimes just connected with the dorsal mark by the 

 finest possible thread of white ; and the same occurred 

 at the hinder part of the segment behind the posterior 

 pair of the trapezoidal tubercles. 



The earliest of the two was full-fed by June 29th, 

 and the other by July.* The former spun a few 

 threads, drawing two leaves partly together with very 

 open meshes, and pupated therein. This pupa was 

 barely half an inch long, and one-eighth of an inch in 

 diameter at the thickest part across the ends of the 

 wing covers, from which point the three flexible rings 

 were deeply cut, but with very slight tapering of the 

 form of the abdomen, which at the end was very bluntly 

 rounded off and furnished with eight fine- pointed 

 bristles ; the head tolerably well defined from the 

 thorax, and this again also from the back of the abdo- 

 men, which swelled out thence. I figured the pupa on 

 the 5th of July ; the colour was then a very rich 

 orange-brown, the eye-pieces black, wing-covers mar- 

 gined with darker brown, and the nervures strongly 



* A blank left for the date.— H. T. S. 



